4 ms·
[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac num
by jot 15y ago
[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago.
I'm interested to know what the proportions of OSes are today.
- robgough 15y agome too. I just spent the weekend at a hack day (http://leedshack.com http://leedshack.com) in the UK, with over 100 hackers. I barely saw any windows machines, almost everyone had a Mac.
- rickmb 15y agoI've noticed that the percentage of Macs in the same group is higher at events than it is online or inside companies. One could speculate about the reasons, but I do know that seeing hackers I respect with pretty shiny Apple laptops is what triggered me to buy my first Mac back in 2002.
- akent 15y agoResults of a HN poll from a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2303726 Total responses: 1539 Linux: 564 (36.65%) Mac: 557 (36.19%) Windows: 365 (23.72%) Other: 53 (3.44%)
- officemonkey 15y agoPolls can be aspirational. I'd rely more on the server logs say.
- bostonpete 15y agoWell, I would have answered Linux on that poll, because I use it as my primary work environment. But I almost exclusively use Windows for web browsing. Maybe I'm atypical though.
- officemonkey 15y agoNot really. I do most of my HackerNews surfing at home on OS X, but I spend most of my workday on Windows.